The endearingly batshit auteur who brought us Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and most recently, Inland Empire, is up to something new: a web-based series of interviews that appears to be a kind of video portrait of America, maybe in a Walker Evans or Diane Arbus vein. In the 'About' video, Lynch gives little elaboration about Interview Project, and deadpans things like, "The people who were interviewed each was different." The first episode, which premiered yesterday, is an interview with Jess, a wizened old dude who was just sitting by the road in Needles, California waiting for his trailer to be repaired. We're imagining more Lynchian characters like him, straight out of a non-sequitor moment from one of his films, but this project is being helmed by Austin Lynch, David's 26-year-old son and maybe will take on bigger themes as it progresses. It was shot over 70 days and 20,000 miles as the team went across the country and back again, and there will be a new episode up on the site every three days. more ›

-- Eraserhead (1977): More than just a t-shirt you saw all the art majors sport in college, it's one of David Lynch's first films. And it's sort of spooky in that David Lynch sort-of-but-not-exactly-creepy kind of way. Screens tonight at 7 p.m. and 8:50 at the Castro Theatre; $6-9. -- The Haunted Laundromat: A Pre-Halloween Spooktacular: SOMA's cafe, laundromat, and intimate venue of choice is have a scary bash, complete with candy and costumes.... more ›

Come late January, most national publications are usually too overwhelmed (and understaffed) to even consider covering any film fest outside of Sundance. Even SF publications are hard pressed to see past the flurry of Park City and look over their shoulders into The Mission. It’s a shame, because if they looked, they’d find a really meaty, crafty, saucy festival offering a smattering of hard to find films and some films even harder to miss. more ›

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. more ›

Barrespondent Nico loves an unsubstantiated claim. Truly. Given that the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster and Area 51 remain a major part of his raison d'être one would think he runs out for the new edition of the Weekly World News at first light. Which is not entirely untrue. We feel the world would be much a less interesting place without the simple pleasure of freaks and cryptozoology. more ›